She was replaced in the lawsuit, by some retired investment banker who lives in Washington state.

It's kind of interesting to be made the national poster child for small business owners who refuse to purchase private health insurance, and then go bankrupt in part because of unpaid medical bills, costs that are passed along to people who do bother to purchase private insurance.

“She firmly believes that no one should have the right to tell her she has to use her own money to pay for health insurance,” Karen Harned, executive director of the NFIB legal center, said when the NFIB filed its lawsuit in 2010.